Email has totally transformed how we communicate and receive the information that’s important to us. If you’re making the transition from high school to college or if you’re a parent whose child is in school, it’s vital that you start to prepare your inbox now. Organization is a key factor in the lives of every successful college student and parent.
Get Organized
Most people are guilty of letting their emails pile up into an unmanageable mess. Between subscriptions, regular mail, and promotional materials, an inbox can certainly fill up quickly! One of the fastest ways to clean up your inbox quickly is to create folders. Much like a real-life organizer, assigning categories and folders to your different kinds of email not only makes it easier for you to check it, but also makes it less likely that you’ll miss something important under the deluge of other emails you may have.
Unsubscribe from Unwanted Emails
In addition to getting organized, you may also want to take stock of the kinds of emails that you receive and make intentional choices on whether you’d still like to receive them. Most of us check off the box that says “I’d like to receive emails about future products and services” when we sign up to a new website without even thinking about it. But, over time, these emails pile up. Worse yet, you may not even be interested in the product or service anymore. It’s considered a best practice to unsubscribe to such emails when you stop reading them regularly. This enables you to easily locate things that are important to you, like emails from your professors, emails from your child’s teacher, extracurricular or school newsletters.
However, this can easily be overwhelming. That’s where services such as Mailstrom and Chuck come in. Both allow you to take control of your inbox in truly powerful ways and achieve the level of organization vital to your success in the college environment. Mailstrom has tools that allow you to mass unsubscribe from unwanted mailing lists effortlessly, protects you from receiving future spam emails, and helps you to take back control over your privacy. Similarly, Chuck has tools that can help you to mass delete or archive unwanted emails, clean up all your folders, and monitor all your various email accounts through one convenient overview. Even if you’re using a custom email inbox rather than a more mainstream provider, the application can still interface with it seamlessly.
Getting your email under control and organized can help you prepare for the back-to-school season! Try out Mailstrom and/or Chuck today to get started!
